Update to 10.5.5, reboot, system take forever to come back?

I've been working on getting our server upgraded from 10.4.11 to 10.5.5 and today I was going to give it another go. I have just completed the setup and the first thing I did was upgrade the OS from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 and reboot, the system is right now in a state I have found it in every previous time I've done this:
The screen shows the bluish space image but no login screen and the drives are busy working on something. It does this for a long time. In the past I forced the system down then rebooted and it came right up but today I thought I'd see how long it would take to come out of this funk.
Here's a visual of what my system is doing, it has been in this current state now for more than 20 minutes... http://www.automaticduck.com/screenshots/SERVERafter_10.5.5_updateweb.mov
I haven't found any posts describing this behavior. Is this kinda normal?

davidh wrote:
I always, emphatically recommend a migration over an upgrade install, when moving from any version of Mac OS X to a newer one, especially with OS X Server.
How would one "migrate" from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5? As far as I know it is only possible to run the updater program to get from 10.5.4 to 10.5.5.
There are aspects of software RAID that can be circumvented by fully recreating it under 10.5,
as well did you run a full volume (verify, repair permissions) & disk check (at least & minimally, verify the SMART status) ? Verify the status of the RAID ?
I ran Disk Utility and repaired the RAID, one side had an incorrect number of extended attributes, the other side was fine.
How do I check the SMART status?
Have you tried connecting to the server from your workdesk, via Server Admin & Workgroup Manager ? You might very well be able to. If so, shutdown services (you haven't stated which are in use),
I didn't check if I could get to to the system via those apps, sorry. Last night after 6.5 hours I gave up and rebooted the system.
and then follow my steps posted here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8430397#8430397
Thanks, I'll check these out.

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